Dear rear shocks:

[Nick_S]

Go F*#k yourself. I tried to be civil with and use the right tools and gentle, but forceful bumps with a 2X4 and a mallet but you weren't having it. 5 hours with a 4lb sledge hammer, lots of PB blaster, a heat gun, more swear words than I've ever uttered in my entire life, lots of sweat, some blood...no tears, that shit's for women. Finally I won the battle. Go to hell and take your crappy SLS with you.





All this work and less than 10 min to reinstall both side with the new hardware:blowup:

No point to this thread, just a rant. Carry on :drink:

[slammin.e28]

Looks like you've got some shitluck.

[frankenbeemer]

Price shipped to 29630?

[Nick_S]

Price shipped to 29630?

tree-fitty

[lolcantturn]

can someone explain why these are a pain in the ass?

[slammin.e28]

I had to ditch a set of Billie sports on an e28 because the shock got rusted to the trailing arm. Removed the bolt, no problem, but the shock and arm were as one. Couldn't use heat. More force would have made them look like OP's shocks. So I left them on the car.

[Nick_S]

can someone explain why these are a pain in the ass?

Mine were original with 248K miles. All the bolts came right out no issues but the metal sleeve that inserts into the trailing arm was seized. What I basically ended up doing was beating them till the bushing let go leaving just the sleeve stuck on. With just that you can get vice grips and wiggle it out or hammer it till it starts to loosen up. I would have liked to burn out the bushing but it's very close to the CV boot and I didn't want to damage that. I applied a good amount of anti seize when I installed the new ones as I'd like to get lowering springs and don't want to destroy my new bilsteins.

[South26]

next time use a pickle fork to get them off. I have removed a lot of these from e28s and never had a problem since I started using a fork.

Andy

[Xat1cZ]

wow, you really fucked them up, congratulations.

[Nick_S]

next time use a pickle fork to get them off. I have removed a lot of these from e28s and never had a problem since I started using a fork.

Andy

I did, its what i started out with. Had little success.

wow, you really fucked them up, congratulations.

Thanks, im really strong.

[Nick_S]

Not that it matters. Forgot to add, while doing the shocks I made a pleasant discovery that the PO had replace the sub frame and nearly all the bushings in the rear end with poly bushing. One less hassle I'll have to deal with!

[TrentW]

SLS be damned. Glad mine didn't have it.

[M-technik-3]

Great Thread.

[makaveli2k]

A two prong puller works wonders and has both sides off with ease in 15 minutes.

[Nick_S]

A two prong puller works wonders and has both sides off with ease in 15 minutes.

Tried that after the pickle fork did nothing. Violence was the only solution.